Endless loop after shutting down with Windos volume still mounted

[dryder]

Umm ...

smbmount

should that be just

mount

?

sudo smbmount -o guest "//study-raid/database (f)/" /mnt/dbf
gave

Warning: mapping 'guest' to 'guest,sec=none'

Mounting the DFS root for domain not implemented yet
No ip address specified and hostname not found

It's a weird one isn't it?



David

[PatchesTheCaveman]

You can also use

mount -t smb

smbmount is a shortcut.

[Never mind...]

[PatchesTheCaveman]

That's weird. If nautilus can find it by name smbmount should be able to. Figure out study-raid's IP address, probably most easily by:

ping -c4 study-raid

and substitute that for its name in the smbmount command.

[dryder]

Weirder - it can't find the name - but can the ip address ...

I'm checking the router connection and windows name - it used to be study1-raid but I changed the name (dropping '1') some time ago.

Get back to you ...

David

[PatchesTheCaveman]

If you know the IP address, you can mount it with it. e.g.

sudo smbmount -o guest "//192.168.0.10/database (f)/" /mnt/dbf

ETA: On some networks you can't ping a Windows machine from a Linux one by name. That's not necessarily a problem.

[dryder]

Hi,

XP computer:
Checked the router - STUDY-RAID (caps) is attached to 192.168.0.2. The router's LanIP setup (fixed address table ayk) has the same ip address, computer name and the MAC number is the same in both attached devices and LanIP setup.

The computer (Start>My Computer>Properties) has the same name, workgroup is correct.

sudo smbmount -o guest "//192.168.0.2/database (f)/" /mnt/dbf

gives me:

david@ubuntu64:~$ sudo smbmount -o guest "//192.168.0.2/database/" /mnt/dbf
Warning: mapping 'guest' to 'guest,sec=none'

Mounting the DFS root for domain not implemented yet
No ip address specified and hostname not found
david@ubuntu64:~$

Samba used to be so easy ....

David

[PatchesTheCaveman]

Try:

sudo smbmount -o guest,netbiosname=study-raid,ip=192.168.0.2,servern=ubuntu "//study-raid/database (f)/" /mnt/dbf

Short of some sort of map outlining the exact electrical path to the other system that's about as specific as you can get!

[dryder]

Hi,
Apologies for the delay in replying.

No joy:

david@ubuntu64:~$ sudo smbmount -o guest,netbiosname=study-raid,ip=192.168.0.2,servern=ubuntu "//study-raid/database (f)/" /mnt/dbf
Warning: mapping 'guest' to 'guest,sec=none'

Mounting the DFS root for domain not implemented yet
mount error: can not change directory into mount target guest,sec=none,netbiosname=study-raid,ip=192.168.0.2,servern=ubuntu
david@ubuntu64:~$

I tried it with a different windows drive and got the same result.

As a matter of interest, when trying to delete the rogue file, this is the error message:

Error while deleting.
There was an error getting information about "database (f) on study-raid.volume".
The specified location is not supported

Is "The specified location is not supported" referring to the rogue file or "database (f)"?

I will be away until Saturday so will resume the solving of this then. I very much appreciate you helping with a problem I frankly just don't understand.

David

[dryder]

Hi,

I tried with a different folder but received the same message:

david@ubuntu64:~$ sudo smbmount -o guest "//192.168.0.2/Gnucash books/" /mnt/dbf
[sudo] password for david:
Warning: mapping 'guest' to 'guest,sec=none'

Mounting the DFS root for domain not implemented yet
No ip address specified and hostname not found
david@ubuntu64:~$

then for a different shared volume - it, too, gave the same error.

Any help would be appreciated.

David

[PatchesTheCaveman]

Make sure the capitalization matches exactly that of the file share and try again. Apparently capitalization matters sometimes and causes the unhelpful DFS error.